It is 4:37 am, I’m sitting on a green and black seat at Gate 17 to Tampa, Florida. This isn’t any ordinary flight because I’m flying by myself for the first time. It is because, in about 14 hours, I will have done the greatest surprise in my family's history.

I do not enjoy surprises, but somehow throughout my whole life. surprises just keep happening to me. Let me provide you with a short backstory. About seven or eight years ago, my sister moved to South Carolina and then eventually to Florida. Throughout all of these years of her not living in Rhode Island, she has been able to surprise me a countless number of times. Well, today is the day that I will get back at her for all of the frightening surprises. One of these includes me waking up in the middle of the night asking my mother for some water and instead of my mother bringing me water, my sister was the one who brought it to me. Now imagine being half asleep and just confused because your sister who was supposed to be in Florida just brought you some water.

After all of these surprises, I have yet to get her back until today. So with the help of my brother-in-law and my parents, I booked a flight for 12 days and devised a plan of how it was going to go down. When I arrive, my sister will be at work with no clue that I will be in Florida-- I hope. My original plan was when she arrived home from work, I would spin around in a computer desk chair and say “I have been waiting for you!” Then my mother decided to buy a large inflatable duck pool floaty, in which I had previously mentioned to my sister that I’d get her one one day. When she arrives from work, I am going to be in the pool on the big duck floaty. She gets two in one-- a duck and her sister. A couple of hours prior to this flight, I stuffed an inflatable duck in my suitcase that my brother-in-law would later inflate with a leaf blower.

At around 5:30 pm, I was in the bathroom and all of a sudden I hear "SHE'S HERE!" I immediately put my bathing suit on and I just ran out of there and headed for the pool. I set up the camera and hopped on top of the duck. When she first saw the duck in the pool, she didn't realize that there was someone there. Then she saw legs but still didn't know exactly who it was. The duck turned around as she was walking toward the deck and she finally saw it was me! She was in shock and just kept saying "what are you doing here!!??" It was honestly such a great experience and after all of these months of keeping this secret, I was finally able to surprise her. When my sister saw me, I said, "surprise! I got you a duck!!!"